> I haven't had a 'relaxing' holiday without worries in over 12 months and so I'm considering a change.
(I work in operations/devops engineering and not into sofware engineering so my point of view is a bit different, the underlying reasoning is applicable anyway, imho)
I made a point to grill the interviewers during the interview on such topics. HR bullshit like "we care for work-life balance" means nothing, I grill the technical interviewer when it comes to the usual "do you have any question for us?"
How do you manage on-call availability? How many people are on-call and how many at any given moment? Can on-call people escalate things further? To whom? Are developers on-call too? Do do you architect for HA? How? In your current architecture, what could be a single point of failure?
This kind of questions.
Any negative reply is a red flag. If I start seeing more than two-three red flags (or even one on an important question) then I'll pass.
My reasoning when I last changed job was that my job at the time was awful but I had a permanent contract, it would not have made sense to jump into another awful job and win the additional stress and risk derived from the probation time.
(I work in operations/devops engineering and not into sofware engineering so my point of view is a bit different, the underlying reasoning is applicable anyway, imho)
I made a point to grill the interviewers during the interview on such topics. HR bullshit like "we care for work-life balance" means nothing, I grill the technical interviewer when it comes to the usual "do you have any question for us?"
How do you manage on-call availability? How many people are on-call and how many at any given moment? Can on-call people escalate things further? To whom? Are developers on-call too? Do do you architect for HA? How? In your current architecture, what could be a single point of failure?
This kind of questions.
Any negative reply is a red flag. If I start seeing more than two-three red flags (or even one on an important question) then I'll pass.
My reasoning when I last changed job was that my job at the time was awful but I had a permanent contract, it would not have made sense to jump into another awful job and win the additional stress and risk derived from the probation time.